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To think I don’t need to be told how much bread to order

93 replies

Mamsnetter2020 · 09/12/2019 21:23

DS has been having cereal instead of toast for the last few nights so we have around half a loaf more than we usually would, DP told me I need to keep an eye on the bread situation.

AIBU to think I am a grown adult who is quite capable of this and it really does not need to be commented on!

OP posts:
katewhinesalot · 10/12/2019 00:15

Or he'll be spending all his dough on maintenance payments.

DPotter · 10/12/2019 00:16

On the admittedly rare occasion when DP or DD offer 'helpful' suggestions or criticism of my household management, they are told in no uncertain terms that if they think they can do better, I'm not stopping them from taking on the responsibility.

As I say, it is the rare occasion such comments are made.......

SheSaidHummingbird · 10/12/2019 00:19

Please make Bread Brigade badges for each family member to wear. And wear Bakers hat when you issue urgent updates.

Gibbonsgibbonsgibbons · 10/12/2019 00:20

Grin make sure the local ducks are on alert to deal with the “bread situation”

SheSaidHummingbird · 10/12/2019 00:20

Wake him up in the middle of the night to issue updates. Because it's very important to him.

MarthasGinYard · 10/12/2019 00:22

At yeast he's onto it

Be Precslice with your reports Op

Aycharow · 10/12/2019 00:29

Don't rise to it OP.

NaturalDisasters · 10/12/2019 00:32

What @SheSaidHummingbird said. But I might escalate to...

THE BUTTER SITUATION.

You could have a situation room and a photo wall.

BeanTownNancy · 10/12/2019 00:33

How serious is your financial situation, OP?

I can understand his concern if you're living on the breadline. I mean, however you slice it, you can't just be wasting dough on superfluous loaves.

Aquamarine1029 · 10/12/2019 00:41

The Bread Situation

Hollywood's next block buster.

Until then, shove several slices down his throat and hope he choked to death.

SheSaidHummingbird · 10/12/2019 01:11

I loave to break this to you, sweetheart. It's you, not me. I'm at my breads end. I just can't hovis anymore. Our relationship has been stale for months. You see, I've met someone. Captain Kingsmill; he's stollen my heart... Well, you you don't knead the details. We started working together on The Bread Situation. One thing lead to another. You must have known this was coming. Oh crumbs, that's him now. It's for the best of both. I dough want to leave you like this, but you deserve someone butter.

SheSaidHummingbird · 10/12/2019 01:19

*One thing bread to another.

Jeeze, spellcheck rejects puns.

SheSaidHummingbird · 10/12/2019 01:21

OP if you don't want to go to the extreme of Breadgate, could you just throw a (stale) loaf at his head and tell him it's from us?

Pretzelcoatl · 10/12/2019 01:23

“ What exactly does he think is going to happen? That the bread is going to rise up and take over the house in some sort of bread-apocalypse?”

This would be the yeast of your worries if there was a bun fight.

BillHadersNewWife · 10/12/2019 01:26

Freeze it...then when there's no bread, you can toast it straight out of the freezer.

kateandme · 10/12/2019 01:57

oh god.is my dad having an affair! because you have him in your house! so fucking fustration.and when there isnt any "no bread today then" or puppy face "where's my bread for my toast!" yeh.fuck off.my poor mum

twentynineyears · 10/12/2019 02:14

My retired dad constructs his entire morning around going and buying his rolls for lunch.

Men and their bread.

Bloodybridget · 10/12/2019 03:01

Wish I hadn't read this thread now. I really want some toast (but am in someone else's house and don't feel I should go and make it. Also, their kitchen will be freezing).

DippyAvocado · 10/12/2019 03:02

Men can be weird about bread. DP will way every slice of bread in a loaf no matter if it’s a week old and there’s new, nice bread. It’s my house and I buy the food and I’m begging him please, throw that crap dried out slice away and use the new loaf, but no, he’ll eat it.

My DH does this, but he never actually eats it! It just lies festering in the wrapper in the bread bin until I throw it away. He pretends he's going to eat it, but I always see him getting a fresh slice out. I think he just doesn't like the idea of waste so he lets me do the throwing away.

stupidtabloidheadlines · 10/12/2019 03:54

Hm. You should draw up a scale for clarity. Is the Bread Situation critical, or merely at a severe level?

JenniferM1989 · 10/12/2019 04:19

Bread situation 😂

Nillynally · 10/12/2019 05:17

He gets even more uppity when we’re at the other end of the scale & there is not much bread* 🙈

So you admit then, that you've allowed the bread situation to escalate before? No wonder he's concerned. Poor man.

itsnotthatserious · 10/12/2019 05:18

😂😂 love the idea of updates.

My dh is a micro manager. Drives me mad. Mostly I ignore him but I do sometimes have to tell him to piss off. He complains about too many lights being on (I need to bloody see at night!), if we buy too many veg or xyz, tells us how much sugar is in everything we eat, the washing machine must be on constant turnover lest we should have dirty washing. Does my fucking head in.

transformandriseup · 10/12/2019 06:55

We once ordered 20 loaves too much for a scout camp. That was a "bread situation"

Vulpine · 10/12/2019 06:59

Tell him to kiss your buns

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